Learn · The mechanics of AI visibility

Your own security settings may be the reason no AI assistant has ever heard of your business.

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Proof & data

Most AI-visibility tools only watch — they report where you are absent and stop there. AI HALO does the work that changes the answer, then re-scans to prove it.

$29–$780/mo

what monitoring tools charge to report your AI visibility

$1,500–$50k/mo

what GEO agencies charge to execute — ongoing retainer

One investment

what AI HALO asks to do the work + a 30-day proof re-scan

Measured live across ChatGPT · Claude · Gemini · Meta AI · Grok · DeepSeek — we ask the models your buyers’ real questions, before and after.

The Cloudflare AI Trap: Are You Accidentally Blocking ChatGPT?

Cloudflare's bot-fight mode and many default WAF configurations are built to stop scraping and credential-stuffing bots, but they frequently classify AI crawlers — GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Google-Extended, PerplexityBot — under the same blanket rule, returning a 403 before the crawler ever reads a page. The business owner never sees an error; the site looks fine to a human visitor while being functionally invisible to every AI assistant that would otherwise cite it. This is common on sites that enabled aggressive bot protection for legitimate security reasons and never revisited the rule once AI crawlers became a distinct traffic category worth allowing. Diagnosing it requires checking server logs or crawler-specific testing tools, not just viewing the site in a browser. AI HALO's audit tests exactly this — whether each major AI crawler can actually reach and parse the site — and corrects the blocking rules as part of the unblocking work before any structured-data or citation effort would otherwise go to waste.

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Questions

Answered.

How do I check if my site is blocking AI crawlers?+

Review server or Cloudflare firewall logs for requests from GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Google-Extended, and PerplexityBot user agents and check their response codes; a 403 or challenge response means the crawler is being blocked before it can read your content.

Will allowing AI crawlers expose my site to more bad bots?+

No — you can allow specific, verified AI crawler user agents and IP ranges while keeping bot-fight protections active against everything else; it's a targeted allowlist, not a general loosening of security.

Does robots.txt alone control AI crawler access?+

robots.txt only requests that a crawler skip a path — it doesn't stop a firewall or bot-fight rule from blocking the request outright. Both layers need to explicitly permit the crawler for it to succeed.